Drinks
The 15 Best Bottles of Rums You Can Buy
The most diverse spirit is also the most confusing — these are the rum bottles most worth your time.
rum
Latest
-
-
DrinksThis Mexican Booze Smells Like Pickles and Tastes Incredible In Everything
Wild-fermented from naturally-grown sugar cane in a cloud forest in central Mexico, this centuries-in-the-making Oaxacan rum is truly something special.
-
DrinksStolen Rum’s Coffee & Cigarettes Tastes How It Sounds
New Zealand’s Stolen Rum didn’t steal our hearts, but it’s certainly unique.
-
DrinksRum from the Rockies?
The story of Karen Hoskin and Montanya Distillers producing one of the country’s top craft varieties isn’t one of convention.
-
DrinksTasting Notes: Angostura Rum
The House of Angostura makes the best-known bitters in the world. In fact, with all the press given to Angostura’s bitters, it’s easy to overlook their line of rums, which they’ve been making for over 100 years.
-
DrinksSlow As Molasses: 5 Rums We’re Drinking Now
In the final throes of summer each year, before we dust off the leather boots, get out the lambswool sweaters and prepare to toss the first curse at Old Man Winter, we spend a little extra time with Old Man Rum. Pretty good company, this guy: a spirit distilled from sugarcane juice or molasses, with few other rules to govern its production and aging.
-
DrinksRum: Your Official Summer Drink
Most honest Americans of drinking age know bourbon as the national spirit. But there’s another drink for us to enjoy in the warm weather that, like bourbon, has a uniquely American story: rum.
-
DrinksTasting Notes: Zacapa XO Rum
While most drinkers look to the islands for their rum fix, good things are coming out of Guatemala, like Ron Zacapa XO ($50), a delicious blend of rums aged six to 25 years old. Most rums are distilled from molasses, but Zacapa is produced from first pressed sugar cane juice at its Guatemalan distillery.
